The Cousin of Senate Bill 6

From the Sherman Dorn Blog

by Sherman Dorn

Florida state Senator Wise has filed Senate Bill 736, the first bill to be filed as a successor to last year's vetoed Senate Bill 6. At a quick run-through, it has performance pay and some state-level evaluation requirements, both of which are more flexible than the language in last year's Senate Bill 6 and, at least for the evaluation part, has an important section that sunsets in a few years and thus will force the legislature to revisit the issue (a very healthy thing). It eliminates continuing contracts for new hires, which is similar to SB 6 and does not include the three-year contracts that's in the bill language floated over the past few months by Patricia Levesque. It is also mostly restricted to those issues, unlike the sprawling SB 6.

For the past few months, I'd been talking with colleagues and friends about expecting Son of Senate Bill 6. It's not that close–more like Cousin of SB 6. Of course, it may well change in committee hearings, on the floor, or in negotiations with the Florida House over whatever bill the lower chamber approves. So we may well have Gene-Spliced Relative of SB 6 by the time the legislative session is done.

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